Updating Adobe Flash Player in a macOS Catalina environment

As mentioned Adobe is no longer making Flash available as of 2020. In any case almost no sites use Flash anymore.

You can't with Chrome. Google has dropped support for flash. You can still use flash in Safari, at least for now.

This is what I do; Click the Apple logo (top left of menu bar) then System Preferences, Flash Player, Updates, and Check Now.

Adobe Flash is 64 bit, works with Catalina and Safari, is available from the Adobe web site, and is required by xfinity/Comcast.

I use it with Comcast almost every day.

Available at: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Apparently Flash Player Installer is a 32-bit app. Here is more good information.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/07/review-macos-catalina-1015-is-what-apple-promised-the-mac-could-be-and-is-a-crucial-upgrade

Thank you the information.

Situation: downloaded macOS Catalina a few days ago and noticed that YouTube videos were not playing on Safari. However, I was able to play the videos on Google Chrome. Still, I wanted access to videos on Safari. Read a few articles about the topic and kept coming across uninstalling Adobe Flash Player and reinstalling it.

What I did: I uninstalled Adobe Flash and while doing a search to reinstall Adobe Flash, I came upon this post. So far, I left it uninstalled and now the YouTube videos are playing. If Adobe is not going to use Flash anymore, I figure it won't hurt to leave it uninstalled.

I'm not tech savvy and really don't know what 32-bit app means. So far, the videos work. If you have any tips or cautions, feel free to let me know. Thank you.

Ha! Lots of sites still use Flash, Xfinity for example. I wish they would all convert to HTML5, but no telling when that is going to happen?

And stranger still is Catalina still allows flash in Safari. Flash is 32 bit and installs and still works in Catalina. Go figure...

You can. You can install for Chrome, Firefox and Safari

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

The problem is that you must enable it in Safari on a site by site basis and you must enable it on a site by site basis for Chrome (see above for Chrome)

In Safari, it's Preferences>Websites>Adobe Flash Player > player to ON for that site

The problem is, when I use certain BT devices, once those devices get below about a 70% charge, the audio/video tracks get out of sync when I use Safari. I don't have this problem with Chrome. I don't fully understand how the BT stack interacts with video and audio in Chrome and Safari so I can't explain why this happens.

Believe me, I'd prefer to use Safari. I use Safari whenever possible but it is not always possible.

Catalina 10.15.1 has caused a few problems with your printersand other things. You needing to up with the manufacture, Messed up the settings in your car with factory GPS. So maybe you will have to contact Smilebox and ask them for help. Hope that this was of some help.

FWIW, YouTube switched from Flash to HTML5 going on five years ago.

I did not think to do that before upgrading. Is this a situation, that now that I have upgraded - it is too late to remove it ?

FWIW, Flash Player has been 64bit since 2011.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/finally-adobe-releases-a-64-bit-flash-player/

When I try to use this with the online application of Rosetta Stone, I get a page that says Adobe Flash is blocked. I use Chrome as my browser. How can I fix this?

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I have tried to find the correct way to uninstall Adobe flash. Would appreciate instructions. Gghump